He can make a good movie with a decent script. Besides, his contract with WB stated he still has to direct two more DC movies after Justice League and one standalone project (likely going to be an Adaptation of Ayn Rands, the Fountainhead. Which I am morbidly interested in regardless of how well JL and the other movies are received)

I’ll escape now from this world, from the world of Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!Avatar: "There's a Starman, waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet me, but he thinks he'd blow my mind."Phew, I’m not tense anymore… now I’m just miserable.People say "be yourself" but that's bad advice, if we were all to "be ourselves" many of us would stop wearing clothes. -Chuckman

Snyder's made one decent movie with a good script. And really most of the credit for DAWN OF THE DEAD 2004 should be given to James Gunn for writing it. Everything else he's made has been tonally disastrous cinematography porn. His films work great if you turn the sound off or just watch a scene or two on Youtube.

I'd be curious to know what George Miller's involvement is too. Was he actually involved with the production or was he simply given a very healthy paycheck for an afternoon discussing the movie over tea & the use of his name in marketing. Something that happens ALL the time. Like the movie FREE FIRE being "Produced by Martin Scorsese". He spent an afternoon with Ben Wheatly & then gave him a few pointers after watching the first cut. That's about it. But the marketing got to trade on his name with a splashy FROM MARTIN SCORSESE credit. (Fun movie, nobody saw it sadly)

Point being, with George Miller and Geoff Johns in tow, essentially altering the movie as it's being made? That's just going to be a massive mess in terms of tone and quality, and likely get a worse reception than it would've been if they stuck to their original creative guns, flawed as Zack Snyder may be as a filmmaker.

I’ll escape now from this world, from the world of Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!Avatar: "There's a Starman, waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet me, but he thinks he'd blow my mind."Phew, I’m not tense anymore… now I’m just miserable.People say "be yourself" but that's bad advice, if we were all to "be ourselves" many of us would stop wearing clothes. -Chuckman

Mera getting a 2nd outfit for the Aquaman movie, a little plastic-ish but looks fucking great regardless. People demanding more color will be happy.Only downside is I liked the carved scales of the 1st more the hexagons pattern on this one.

Thank You God. Now lets see if they can keep up this positive momentum with Justice League.

I’ll escape now from this world, from the world of Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!Avatar: "There's a Starman, waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet me, but he thinks he'd blow my mind."Phew, I’m not tense anymore… now I’m just miserable.People say "be yourself" but that's bad advice, if we were all to "be ourselves" many of us would stop wearing clothes. -Chuckman

For my post-3I fic, go here.The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-PassPeople's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of BantorraI hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis EvangelionYes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.

My biggest worry with wonder woman was that they were going to do what BVS in and hamper the story by including pointless cameos and setup for future DC movies. The biggest reason I was worried was because of the inclusion of Native American Actor Gene Brave Rock. Who was rumored to be playing Apache Chief.

I was worried that including a semi-iconic superhero like that in the movie would short change Wondy. It'd be like having Giant Man in the first Iron Man.

Fortunately that doesn't seem to be the case. He's playing Johnny Brave Cloud. A Fighter pilot from DC's WW2 comics reimagined for WWI.

My favorite moment from him was courtesy of Darwyn Cooke in The New Frontier. Where he was a member of D-List superhero team/Science Adventurers. The Losers.

I’ll escape now from this world, from the world of Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!Avatar: "There's a Starman, waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet me, but he thinks he'd blow my mind."Phew, I’m not tense anymore… now I’m just miserable.People say "be yourself" but that's bad advice, if we were all to "be ourselves" many of us would stop wearing clothes. -Chuckman

Chuckman wrote:I'd love it if the have Sgt. Rock and the Howling Commandos in there.

Think you're mixing people together. Sgt. Rock worked with Easy Company, and was a DC character. The Howling Commandos worked with Sgt. Fury and were Marvel characters.

For my post-3I fic, go here.The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-PassPeople's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of BantorraI hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis EvangelionYes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.

On the one hand, wow that's perfect casting that I'd never have thought of.

On the other hand, this movie feels like a mess and everything about it screams "we have to make this movie so we don't lose the rights". Apparently the rights to Venom and the symbiotes aren't part of a package with Spider-Man.

the prophecy is trueThe wish for respectability, observed spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti, is the greatest deterrent to selfhood and progress.

Venom ONLY makes sense within the context of an already established Spider-Man mythos. Venom as a character is only interesting when he's an obstacle for Spidey to overcome. His entire origin story only happens because he has the worst day of his life because of Spider-Man exposing him as a fraud. Which makes him want to get revenge on Spidey by any means necessary.Without that, he's just not interesting or compelling enough to hold up his own film.

Furthermore, there's something much more nefarious going on behind the scenes that could put Spider-Man in a worse place than he was before the Marvel-Sony Collaboration. This movie, according to what I've read and heard is NOT going to be connected to the MCU because of a power play by Sony to get more money from the MCU deal. Basically, they're planning to make a bunch of movies starring Spider-Man villains and b-listers to create their own cinematic universe to compete with Marvel, and they plan to abuse a contract loophole with Tom Holland, which says he has to star in THREE spider-man movies for them to make the audience think these movies are in the MCU when they really aren't.

I’ll escape now from this world, from the world of Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!Avatar: "There's a Starman, waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet me, but he thinks he'd blow my mind."Phew, I’m not tense anymore… now I’m just miserable.People say "be yourself" but that's bad advice, if we were all to "be ourselves" many of us would stop wearing clothes. -Chuckman

movieartman, Ray isn't saying that Venom can't carry a standalone movie. There have been Venom standalone comics for years exploring various aspects and version of the character, with Eddie and the Symbiote, other people, the symbiote on its own, etc.

What he's saying is that unless Venom is an alien creature (or lab-created thing or something) that Spider-Man wore as a costume, discarded, and bonded with an ordinary man who has a grudge against Spider-Man, his whole character makes no sense.

I have to agree. Venom's whole shtick is "evil Spider-Man". He's Spider-Man's nightmare reflection. If they make a movie where he's not that, it's just Venom in name only.

I like the alien costume saga and the Venom character a lot but I don't have any hope for this movie. It feels like a soulless play to engage in negotiations with Marvel and I hope it ends with Marvel/Disney just buying the damn right back. I like Fox's approach to X-Men but I'd rather Disney gobble everything else up.

the prophecy is trueThe wish for respectability, observed spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti, is the greatest deterrent to selfhood and progress.